Ric Flair Says He Totally Regrets Wrestling For TNA, Surprising Literally No One

Hold onto your butts, coconuts, ‘cuz you’re about to hear Ric Flair explain one of his most obvious all-time life regrets. And no, we don’t mean investing in all of his wrestling progeny faith in David (though that’s probably also true).

Shawn Michaels guested on the latest episode of The Ric Flair Show, where the Nature Boy told his WrestleMania 24 opponent that he regrets wrestling after that match, and, more specifically, wrestling for TNA:

There [are] a couple of things I regret. Number one was ever going to work for TNA. That’s my own fault. It was just a lot of money to wrestle 65 days a year, right? 65 days and make a lot of money. Do you know what I mean? Not WWE money, but pretty good money to do nothing. And I made a lot of friends. I like Kurt Angle very much and I like [James] Storm and [Bobby] Roode. I liked AJ [Styles]. Everybody treated me great. I mean, I don’t have any bad things to say about TNA or the people there at all. After being in the WWE, it’s pretty hard to work any place else because you’re always comparing them no matter how hard you try not to.

Whoa, shocking, right? The rest of the episode is actually kinda cute, with Michaels revealing that he had matching custom Rolexes made for their ‘Mania match. He explained that he wanted to be just like Flair, even if it was just for a day. Good call on that length of time, Shawn. Your bank account and your liver are probably very thankful for that choice.

@SHough610 – True enough. Not only is the joke in really poor taste, but it doesn’t even make sense. Charlotte never really wanted to wrestle and only picked it up in 2012. Reid was a well above average high school/collegiate wrestler who trained with Harley Race, wrestled in NWA, and was coming off a match in Japan before his death. Who would you bet on to be the famous wrestler? Huge swing and a miss here.

Ok, I was wondering if it was just me, but that joke seemed totally inappropriate. I mean, the side of me that thought Gilbert Gottfried shouldn’t have been fired as spokesman for AFLAC found it funny, but the decent side of me…not so much.

So let me get this straight: Nate makes a post about Naomi throwing a tantrum, and you all go nuts about it and fire him. Jokes about someone’s kid ODing, we probably won’t hear a peep from Brandon. Do I have that right?

So let me get this straight: Nate makes a post about Naomi throwing a tantrum, and you all go nuts about it and fire him. Jokes about someone’s kid ODing, we probably won’t hear a peep from Brandon. Do I have that right?

Nate wrote this article about Naomi: [uproxx.com], which originally called it a tantrum instead of “taking un-PG aim.” Brandon, as a white knight SJW, posted an apology on behalf at the site at how horribly offensive the word “tantrum” must be to women. David piled on by deciding that since Naomi is black, it was not only mysoginistic, but racist to boot: [uproxx.com].

Nate stopped doing the Smackdown report immediately after, and confirmed on Twitter he was no longer contributing to the site. It looks like lately he’s been contributing some fluff “X things you didn’t know about Y” pieces, though.